On: Rust means never having to close a socket

[solipsism]

Just to be clear (and to check this myself -- I'm just starting to learn Rust), a five second gap is actually possible right? Say I use a socket, stop using it, don't call drop(socket), and I don't leave the scope for 5 seconds because I'm busy doing something.

[ben0x539 → solipsism]

Yeah, if you hold on to the thing in your scope, it won't go out of scope and won't be disposed of.

[ef4 → solipsism]

Yes, you are correct.

What I was trying to explain is that the timing is deterministic and immediate. People are used to unpredictable GC and rightly don't want to trust it with thing like this.